Recently I was reading this interview, from 2000 in The Atlantic, with the late Susan Sontag. Among the things she discusses is technology:

The leap is from writing by hand to the typewriter. From writing with a typewriter to using a computer is no leap at all.” In the same way, the real leap is when books are set in type and they become uniform, reproducible objects. They can then be uniform reproducible objects in some non-paper-based form, and I don’t feel in any way threatened by that. I don’t need the OED in book form. I’m delighted it’s a CD and I can stick it in my computer.

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